trickle

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

trickles

1.
A very thin river.
The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
2.
A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

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verb

V_es/s

trickles

V_ing/Gerund

trickling

V_ed/pp

trickled

1.
(transitive)to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
2.
(intransitive)to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
3.
(intransitive)To move or roll slowly.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (tears trickled)) of Middle English striklen (to trickle), equivalent to strike + --le.